Shipwire recently posted a blog to Practicalecommerce.com which comments on the effect of a weak dollar on U.S. based manufacturing and small businesses that are sourcing from them. We have written about this before on the Shipwire blog. With the dollar falling further, it seemed like it was time to update our thoughts on this....

Shipwire has participated in quite a few conversations with bloggers, press and merchants over the past months about International shipping and International e-commerce sales. In fact, Shipwire's Nate Gilmore will be in Atlanta next week at the Ecommerce Merchants Spring Summit giving a talk on "Going International" (We'll post a link to the slides later)....